PoemTown - St. Johnsbury
Sarah Audsley will be the featured poet at St. Johnsbury’s PoemTown celebration. She will read to kick off the open mic reading by poets whose work is featured in PoemTown 2025.
April 27 at 2:00 pm
Beyond Definitions of Diaspora: Korean Women Poets Breaking & Building Poetics
Korean American women poets will offer their insights on what it means to break and build poetic identities, to move beyond perceived definitions of Korean diaspora, displacement, kinship, and (un)belonging. Korean women poets’ contributions to contemporary American poetry will be highlighted through their individual contributions, and will demonstrate how their work advances the field. Each poet will read a poem, which will be followed by a moderated discussion.
Thursday, March 27 - 1:45 to 3:00 pm
Location: Room 410, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center
Session Code: T209
Understories & Mycocosms: Tapping Hidden Networks
How do we tap into networks outside of established power structures in precarious times and spaces to connect with allies and advocates? What cues can we take from the remarkable pathways ignited by trees, fungi, and other species in activating our understories? Writers, editors, organizers, and producers will reveal literature’s Wood Wide Web, talking about the tales beneath the tales that animate our writing and how symbiosis can circumvent and subvert obstacles to nourish literary lives.
Thursday, March 27 - 10:30 - 11:50 am
Location: Room 403A, Level Two, Los Angeles Convention Center
Session Code: T142
Where words transcend boundaries connect with fellow poetry enthusiasts and celebrate the unifying force of words connecting our border communities in French and English.
Où les mots transcendent les frontières joignez-vous à d'autres passionnés de poésie et célébrez la force unificatrice des mots qui relient nos communautés frontalières en français et en anglais.
Nov 1 @ 7pm Local poets read at the Haskell Opera House. Nov 2 @ 7pm Esteemed poets from VT & Quebec read and conduct poetry workshops during the day in Derby Line & Stanstead.
Haskell Free Library and Opera House
1 rue Church, Stanstead, QC, 93 Caswell Ave, Derby Line, VT 05830
This generative writing workshop will focus on our connection to water and what that means for us as townspeople who are intimately connected to, and impacted by, the rise and fall of the Gihon and Lamoille Rivers. Our bodies are, on average, made up of roughly 60-75% water. But what does water is life mean in the aftermath of historic flooding? Together we will explore how the water holds us, how the water shapes our definitions of self and self-hood, and how water makes its own self known, proclaims its own self-determination. Writing Prompts and discussion questions will be provided.
Red Mill Dining Hall
Vermont Studio Center
Johnson, VT
2:00 - 4:00 pm
This workshop is offered as part of Johnson Community Workshop series: https://www.johnsonpubliclibrary.org/workshops
The New England Poetry Club will host poets, Sarah Audsley and George Kalogeris this summer at the historic Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters on the lawn of the house in Cambridge.
The New England Poetry Club, together with the Friends of the Longfellow House, hosts the oldest reading series in the country at the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Site in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sunday, September 29 at 3:00 pm.
This reading is free and open to the public.
For more information about Longfellow House: www.nps.gov/long/index.htm.
Visiting Writer at Bloomsbury University
Class visits, a featured reading, and a craft discussion.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Sarah Audsley will read for Menino Arts Center’s 2nd Thursday Poetry Reading Series.
More details to come!
Menino Arts Center
Home of the Hyde Park Art Association
26 Central Avenue
Hyde Park, MA 02136
617-364-2787
info@hpaa-mac.org
Ninth Biennial Conference on Adoption and Culture
Brown University, from April 4-6, 2024
Sarah Audsley will read and present on Friday, April 5, from 8:30 to 10:00 pm.
For more information: www.adoptionandculture.org/conference
Visiting Writer at the University of Vermont
Class visits, a reading, and a craft discussion.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
A Light in the Fog: Creative Writing about Adoption at the NeMLA 2024 Conference
Adoptee Poetics: an overview of history and present day - presented by Sarah Audsley
In 1997, Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology by Korean Adoptees, the first adoptee poetry anthology, was published. This was an important moment, but not the peak of adoptees' contributions to the contemporary American literary landscape. In fact, since then adoptee poets have been adding to a growing body of work defined as adoptee poetics. A subset of American poetics, adoptee poetics is the imaginative space and body of work by adoptee poets.
The publishing history of adoptee poetics will be outlined and examples of contemporary adoptee poets will be offered, including poems by Tiana Nobile, Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, Lee Herrick, Sun Yung Shin, among others. Sarah Audsley, adoptee poet and member of The Starlings Collective, a collective of diverse and distinct voices of BIPOC adoptee writers and artists, will present on Adoptee Poetics and also read from her debut poetry collection, Landlock X (Texas Review Press, 2023).
Event Date: Sunday, March 10
Co- Presenters: Jerry Wemple, Didi Jackson
Event Time: 10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Room Location: Gardner A
$375.00 with Onion River Workshop
Instructor: Sarah Audsley
Poems are containers for feeling, for expression, for memory, for capturing that something, something, and much more. It’s often difficult to carve out time to write with the pace of modern life: work, kids, commuting, pets, cooking, cleaning, etc. So much can get in the way of doing this thing that we love, and blocking out time can be the hardest part. So, let’s set aside this time for poetry, for you, for your creative work. Instructor Sarah Audsley will lead you through a five-week workshop where you’ll read and discuss poems, have time to write, and will tackle the publishing/submitting hurdle together.
Writers at all stages are welcome. At each session, participants will receive poem packets for discussion and be invited to try new poetic forms. By the end of the class, all participants will have several new poems written and will be ready to revise and submit their work.
This is an online 5-week workshop. Classes will be held over Zoom.
The workshop will occur on the following days:
March 5: 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET (Tuesday)
March 12: 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET (Tuesday)
March 19: 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET (Tuesday)
March 27: 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET (Wednesday)
April 2: 6:30 - 8:30 pm ET (Tuesday)
Literary Intersections
Here Now: Art and Migration
Thursday, February 22, 2024, 6-7:30pm
BCA Center, Lorraine B. Good Room
Burlington City Arts Center, 135 Church Street
Reflect on the kaleidoscopic relevance of our current BCA exhibition, Here Now: Art and Migration, with an interdisciplinary evening. Literary Intersections is a new series presenting topical writing with textual – and sometimes visual – affinities with art on view at BCA Center. Featured writers include Vermont poet Sarah Audsley, author of Landlock X (2023), and Leslie Sainz, author of Have You Been Long Enough at Table (2023).
Texas Review Press Reading with Bat City Review, Gulf Coast, and Texas Review Journal
An AWP Offsite Reading at Stray Cat on Saturday Feb. 10th from 7-9pm.
Stray Cat Film Center
1662 Broadway Blvd
Kansas City, MO 64108
(Re)Vision: Creating a Sustainable Writing Community
(Tiana Nobile, Sarah Audsley, Tamiko Beyer, Dharani Persaud)
Writers are not only writers. They are parents, teachers, and organizers, among others. As a result, it can be a challenge to carve out dedicated time for the page, and when we do, a piece can sit untouched for months. A group of Asian American writers created a space to exchange work that requires minimal time while maximizing community building amid life’s other commitments. Panelists discuss the significance of safe writing spaces and how their mixed genre grouping allows for unique dialogue.
Event Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024
Event Time: 3:20 p.m. to 4:35 p.m. CT
Room Location: Room 2502B, Kansas City Convention Center, Level 2
Texas Review Press - Author Signing
Sarah Audsley will be signing copies of Landlock X at the Texas Review Press Booth: 713 & 715
Thursday, February 8, 2024 from 10:00 - 11:00 am.
Merrill Visiting Poet at The Lawrenceville School
Class visits, a featured reading, and a craft discussion.
Thursday, January 25 - Friday, January 26, 2024.
Sarah Audsley will host a writing workshop at Firefolk Arts in Waitsfield, VT on Sunday, January 14th from 3:00 - 4:30 pm.
Description: Disrupt the Linear | Land and Form: a generative poetry workshop with Sarah Audsley, author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press, 2023)
The lyric disrupts linear time just like the continual changes in the natural world are fluid. The lyric allows poetry to become an embodied container for the human experience. Connecting to land and place allows us a sense of belonging. What a relief. Yes? Yes, on both counts. In this generative workshop, participants will be invited to look at the lyric mode in poetry. We will write together using examples of various poetic forms to jumpstart new work and ideas of how to write into land and forms.
Cost: sliding scale $20 to $50 per person
A handout will be provided. Bring a notebook, pen or pencil, colored pencils or markers, and an image of your favorite place or an object from the natural world. No experience necessary.
Reservoir: What the Water Knows at the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
In celebration of this exhibition, poets Sarah Audsley, Jennifer Funk, Cynthia, Huntington, and Ros Zimmermann will read poems.
To close out our exhibit "Reservoir: What the Water Knows," join us for a celebration of water as a repository of form, sound, and inspiration for creativity with readings by celebrated poets Sarah Audsley, Jen Funk, Cynthia Huntington Lisa Harries Schumann and Ros Zimmermann.
The doors will open at 6 pm, to give the attendees a chance to see the exhibit. The reading will begin at 6:30 pm.
The event is free and open to all. A suggested donation of $10 is gratefully accepted.
There is limited parking at the museum, and it will be available on a first come, first serve basis. Please visit waterworksmuseum.org or call 617. 277.0065 for event information.
Cynthia Huntington is a poet, memoirist and a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. In 2004 she was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Fire Muse: Poems from the Salt House (2016); Heavenly Bodies (2012), which was nominated for a National Book Award; Levis Prize-winner The Radiant (2003); We Have Gone to the Beach (1996), which won the Beatrice Hawley Award and the Jane Kenyon Award; and The Fish-Wife (1985); as well as the nonfiction prose volume The Salt House (1998).
Sarah Audsley, a Korean American adoptee, is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press, 2023), a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective. Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont.
Jennifer Funk is a native Californian trying to prove her mettle in New England. A graduate of Bennington College and of Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers, she has been a scholarship recipient of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and The Frost Place. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Four Way Review, Cimarron Review, The Boiler, and elsewhere.
Poet Ros Zimmermann plays with language as a body that is a reservoir of continual change and reallocation, with the idea that all bodies of matter are in motion. Lisa Harries Schumann is a translator from the German and a writer of prose exploring the historical past, myth-making, and the obscured root-tendrils between the two that spring up in our present. In their collaborative piece, Ros and Lisa use the Chestnut Hill Reservoir as inspiration, circling an imagined water from which roads splay, pipes drain, and thoughts emerge.
Sarah Audsley will read from Landlock X with Liza Katz Duncan, author of Given (Autumn House Press, 2023), and Sebastian Merrill, author of Ghost :: Seeds (Texas Review Press, 2023) at the Norwich Bookstore.
Sarah Audsley will read from Landlock X with Liza Katz Duncan, author of Given (Autumn House Press, 2023), and Sebastian Merrill, author of Ghost :: Seeds (Texas Review Press, 2023) at the Stowe Free Library.
Sarah Audsley will read from Landlock X on Sunday, November 5th, at 1:00 pm at Firefolk Arts.
Bring a poem or something to read or share!
Sarah Audsley will read from Landlock X on Wednesday, November 1st as part of The Hoot reading series hosted by the Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program. Diannely Antigua currently serves as the Portsmouth Poet Laureate.
The Hoot was started by the second Portsmouth poet laureate Robert Dunn and continues to thrive twenty three years later and is one of New Hampshire’s longest running poetry readings!
When:
The first Wednesday of each month from September to June starting at 7pm.
Where:
Portsmouth Book & Bar. Get there early to get a good seat. The Book & Bar has a ramp around back for those who cannot climb stairs. There’s parking on the street for only one hour of meter time. Or park for free a couple blocks a way at the Parrot Ave municipal lot.
Learn more about The Hoot Reading Series and the Portsmouth Poet Laureate.
Sundog Poetry’s Share Your Heart, Share the World program partners with Vermont high schools to connect students and teachers with nationally recognized poets. This annual event features workshops, mentoring, and readings. Materials, generative prompts, and lunch are all provided.
Share Your Heart, Share The World
October 18, 2023
9:00 am - 2:30 pm
9 Church St., St. Albans
St. Albans Museum
First Congregational Church
2023 Teaching Poets:
Baron Wormser
Sarah Audsley
Lizzy Fox
Duncan Campbell
Julia Remillard
Sarah Audsley will read from her debut poetry collection, Landlock X (Texas Review Press) at the Brattleboro Literary Festival, October 13 - 15, 2023.
Sarah Audsley and Franny Choi
Saturday, October 14
11:30 am at Epsilon Spires
Sarah Audsley will read from her debut poetry collection, Landlock X (Texas Review Press) at the Green Mountain Book Festival, September 29 to October 1, 2023. Details below.
Poetry Reading: Mike Fleming, Partridge Boswell, Holly Painter and Sarah Audsley
Date and time: Saturday, 9/30/23 - Poetry Reading: 2:45 - 3:45 pm
The event has been POSTPONED due to unforeseen circumstances.
The Vermont Poets of Color Reading Series celebrates and showcases the poets of color who live and write in VT. The goal of this reading series is to create connection and to raise awareness of our contributions to contemporary American literature and to VT Poetry. Participating poets live in VT and self-identify as BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color).
The first reading in this series will take place at Bridgeside Books in Waterbury, VT on Thursday, September 28 at 5:30 pm. The poets, Shanta Lee, Nico Amador and Sarah Audsley will read. A Q&A and book signing will follow.
If you’re interested in being a part of the VT Poets of Color Reading Series, please fill out this form.
This year's Words Out Loud reading series at the Old West Church in Calais will feature five Vermont poets. Each will read their work in a special little corner (Kents' Corner) of Vermont. An additional sixth presenter of poetry, Nadine Budbill, daughter of the late accomplished Vermont poet David Budbill (1940-2016) and Literary Executor of the Estate of David Budbill, will bring her own voice to read selections from the work of her father.
The readings take place on three Sunday afternoons, begin at 3:00 at the Old West Church, and last for about an hour, after which presenters and guests are invited back to the Kent for a reception with sips & nibbles, book sales, and a chance to meet the presenters amidst the contemporary art on exhibit.
September 17, 2023
Sean Prentiss & Scudder Parker
September 24, 2023
Sarah Audsley & Nadine Budbill
October 1, 2023
Nadell Fishman & Sydney Lea
Join us for “Beer and Broadsides” at the Ruth Stone House.
We’ll be making a broadside of one of the poems from Landlock X.
More details coming soon!
Bryant Park Reading Room
Sarah Audsley will read from Landlock X (Texas Review Press) along with poets, Francesca Bell, Jill McDonough, and Margaret Ray at the Bryant Park Reading Series on August 22 at 6:00 pm.
